Dobrobut medical network has created a unique case of non-standard partnership between business and Western donor funds in the conditions of war
Dobrobut medical network has created a unique case of non-standard partnership between business and Western donor funds in the conditions of war.
Commercial medicine, the core clients of which are women and children, almost completely lost its patients in the very first days after February 24. The market, the turnover of which last year was estimated at about $8 billion, instantly collapsed to almost zero.
In order to prevent a complete shutdown of the business and keep the doctors working, Dobrobut decided to attract foreign donors. The basis of the proposal was to expand the humanitarian assistance provided in the form of medicines and equipment also to medical services on the basis of the existing infrastructure and qualified specialists.
Funds were found within two weeks. Four American foundations acted as donors: Direct Relief, Children of War, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute. The funds raised helped provide the staff with work, and the residents of the Kyiv region with the necessary services, the need for which was especially acute after the liberation of the region.
Clinics in Brovary and Irpin began to provide services to the residents of these towns, as well as neighboring Bucha and Hostomel, free of charge. In Kyiv itself, wounded military and civilians are operated on, and in new clinics in Western Ukraine, assistance is provided to the internally displaced persons.
The American donors were soon joined by the Tabletochki Foundation, which opened a palliative care unit for 20 patients on the basis of Dobrobut, with another 400 being treated at home.
